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◆ Why emerging market issuers are doing less in dollars ◆ Republic of Congo located between rock and hard place ◆ The GlobalCapital Podcast was brought to you by the numbers 17, 100 and the whole Alphabet
The yield was ultra high but Congo had little room to manoeuvre
Benin showed Islamic issuance is a viable market for sub-Saharan African sovereigns
Observers have questioned why the country is issuing debt at this price
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  • The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has arranged a $50m financing facility for an agricultural project in eastern Sudan.
  • Prospects of a sukuk from Tunisia are looking up after the country said it plans to issue dollar denominated bonds and sovereign sukuk with guarantees by America, Japan and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), in the first half of 2014.
  • Prospects of a sukuk from Tunisia are looking up after the country said it plans to issue dollar denominated bonds and sovereign sukuk with guarantees by America, Japan and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), in the first half of 2014.
  • Sukuk’s advantageous pricing for borrowers over conventional bonds in recent years has evaporated in the Gulf – leaving only disadvantageous structuring costs in the Islamic market – but it does not follow that sukuk volumes are going to disappear too. Far from changing tack to bonds, for those who can issue both the rationale to favour sukuk is stronger than ever.
  • CEEMEA bankers are dusting off their Bloomberg terminals in preparation for a resurgence of new issue business next week. DCM and syndicate officials' most conservative estimate for the number of new CEEMEA issues that will be printed next week was three and the most bullish was seven.
  • Union Bank of Nigeria has signed a $100m fully underwritten deal to become the latest in a string of Nigerian financial institutions to tap the international loan market.